Clockwork Revolution (aka Arcanum 2) by InXile from former Troika devs

[Acrux]

(TTN: 49 seconds).

Chad Moore and Jason Anderson are behind it.





FWIW, Brian Fargo says "Important to know that Clockwork Revolution is a true RPG with all of the stats, crunchy details and deep reactivity that we’re known for."

[Segata]

Year of the nigresses

[maidenhaver]

So its a game about a black woman responsible for ruining a clean and peaceful city and turning it into a dystopian police state? Sounds accurate but I don't want to play a game where I'm a woman or black.

[wndrbr]

Cain and Boyarsky join Obsidian and tease their upcoming RPG

- yes! Troika devs are back in business!

they release The Outer Worlds

- ugh, maybe Troika games were good because of Chad Moore and Jason Anderson?

Chad Moore and Jason Anderson joing InXile and tease their upcoming RPG

- yes! Troika devs are back in business! Arcanum 2 baybe!

they announce Bioshock Infinite 2.

...

[maidenhaver]

These has beens didn't want to make games, they wanted to make art, they wanted to say something, and so by dividing the two in their heads they made neither.

[Tweed]

Getting Bioshock Infinite vibes.

That is a very bad vibe to get.

[Vlajdimir Ermenović]

Getting Bioshock Infinite vibes.

That is a very bad vibe to get.

It's easy. It's just retrofuturism + woke.

[Fedora Master]

"Arcanum 2"
That's just disrespectful *****

[maidenhaver]

Getting Bioshock Infinite vibes.

That is a very bad vibe to get.

It's easy. It's just retrofuturism + woke.

The only non-woke retrofuturism I've encountered were Fallout 1 and Batman Mask of the Phantasm.

[rusty_shackleford]

"steampunk" is firmly reddit territory, what were you expecting?

and the idea that arcanum is "steampunk" has to be a complete misunderstanding of the setting by people who never actually played the game. Either that, or people so stupid they think industrialization is "steampunk"

This is steampunk, and it has nothing to do with anything in Arcanum:

[rusty_shackleford]

...And without any surprise, it's yet another video game trailer featuring a black woman.
Has to be a solid 80% of them now.

Black women must really love video games for them to be so heavily marketed towards. Surely they're a solid 70%+ of the people who play them?

[Segata]

I hate how steampunk now means "everything is gold looking and shiny" instead of being dirty copper. Bioshock Infinite and its consequences.

[wndrbr]

I wouldn't have minded steampunk if they did it in a grounded fashion, something like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Instead they went with the shiny reddit tophattery where every character has a gold-plated mechanical limb.

[Roguey]

and the idea that arcanum is "steampunk" has to be a complete misunderstanding of the setting by people who never actually played the game. Either that, or people so stupid they think industrialization is "steampunk"

The weapons and power armor you could craft in Arcanum were absolutely steampunk.

...And without any surprise, it's yet another video game trailer featuring a black woman.
Has to be a solid 80% of them now.

Black women must really love video games for them to be so heavily marketed towards. Surely they're a solid 70%+ of the people who play them?

As usual, they don't do this for the benefit of racial minorities but for the white people who hate white men. Games by liberals for liberals.

[rusty_shackleford]

The weapons and power armor you could craft in Arcanum were absolutely steampunk.

I always thought the powerarmor was a throwaway callback to Fallout, steampunk doesn't describe the setting of Arcanum at all.

[Roguey]

The weapons and power armor you could craft in Arcanum were absolutely steampunk.

I always thought the powerarmor was a throwaway callback to Fallout, steampunk doesn't describe the setting of Arcanum at all.

Unlike most steampunk settings, these elements aren't omnipresent, but they are there https://arcanum.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Schematics

[maidenhaver]

Its called Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. Its absolutely steampunk.

[rusty_shackleford]

The weapons and power armor you could craft in Arcanum were absolutely steampunk.

I always thought the powerarmor was a throwaway callback to Fallout, steampunk doesn't describe the setting of Arcanum at all.

Unlike most steampunk settings, these elements aren't omnipresent, but they are there https://arcanum.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Schematics

All I learned from this is that Nikola Tesla existed in the Arcanum universe.

[rusty_shackleford]

Its called Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. Its absolutely steampunk.

Steamworks isn't inherently steampunk for the same reason star trek isn't cyberpunk.

[maidenhaver]

Nobody and I mean NOBODY ever argued that Arcanum wasn't steampunk, until you disliked a game trailer.

[rusty_shackleford]

Nobody and I mean NOBODY ever argued that Arcanum wasn't steampunk, until you disliked a game trailer.

that's factually untrue
https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/46 ... #q46591123

[maidenhaver]

Nobody and I mean NOBODY ever argued that Arcanum wasn't steampunk, until you disliked a game trailer.

that's factually untrue
https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/46 ... #q46591123

So you, 7 years ago.

[rusty_shackleford]

Nobody and I mean NOBODY ever argued that Arcanum wasn't steampunk, until you disliked a game trailer.

that's factually untrue
https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/46 ... #q46591123

So you, 7 years ago.

You may apologize for being wrong.

[maidenhaver]

I don't apologize to terrorists, or internet contrarians.

[Acrux]

Arcanum fits into the original definition of Steampunk when K.W. Jeter coined the term before it means sticking goggles and cogs on tophats worn by fat chicks (although, ironically Arcanum has goggles, cogs, and tophats). It also didn't have anything to do with "punk" as in counter-cultural like the term is interpreted today. Jeter intended the term to describe the books that he, James Blaylock, and Tim Powers were writing at the time with Victorian backdrops. It was mostly to distinguish what they were doing from the much more popular cyberpunk genre at the time.

The closest of the three to Arcanum is Tim Powers The Anubis Gates. There's nothing of what we would call modern steampunk in that book, but it does have a Victorian setting and a lot of magic.

[Segata]

Bioshock Infinite trailer on the left, Clockwork Revolution on the right

[KnightoftheWind]

Too many similarities to be a coincidence, I guess this is their attempt at a spiritual successor to that game?.

[Vlajdimir Ermenović]

"steampunk" is firmly reddit territory, what were you expecting?

and the idea that arcanum is "steampunk" has to be a complete misunderstanding of the setting by people who never actually played the game. Either that, or people so stupid they think industrialization is "steampunk"

This is steampunk, and it has nothing to do with anything in Arcanum:

All of the ''punk'' genres are, tbh. Cyberpunk, as the most popular one, has the worst of it.

[Emphyrio]

"steampunk" is firmly reddit territory, what were you expecting?

and the idea that arcanum is "steampunk" has to be a complete misunderstanding of the setting by people who never actually played the game. Either that, or people so stupid they think industrialization is "steampunk"

I always considered Arcanum a game designed by people who wondered "What if knights had guns?" but weren't aware that the 16th century happened.

[Klerik]

Speaking of Fargo, I need you to reach down inside my woodchipper. I dropped anime Lollis and the diversity hiring packet down in there and need you to help pull them out.